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Cointreau Distillery was set up in 1849 by Adolphe Cointreau, a confectioner, and his brother Édouard-Jean Cointreau. Their first success was with the cherry liqueur Guignolet, but they also found success when they blended sweet and bitter orange peels and pure alcohol from sugar beets. The first bottles of Cointreau were sold in 1875.
The current majority shareholder of Mount Gay Distilleries since 1989 is Rémy Cointreau. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Mount Gay Rum is sold in 110 countries, [ 4 ] and its primary export market is the United States of America .
Rémy Cointreau is a French, family-owned business group specialized in the production and distribution of alcoholic beverages.The group's products include cognac (Rémy Martin, Louis XIII), triple sec (), the Greek spirit Metaxa, rum (), brandy (St-Rémy), gin (The Botanist) and whisky (Bruichladdich, Port Charlotte, Westland, Domaine des Hautes Alpes).
Louis XIII (French pronunciation: [lwi tʁɛz]) is a cognac produced by Rémy Martin, a company headquartered in Cognac, France, and owned by the Rémy Cointreau Group. The name was chosen as a tribute to King Louis XIII of France, the reigning monarch when the Rémy Martin family settled in the Cognac region.
The origin of the name "triple sec" is disputed. The term is French and composed of triple, with the same meaning as in English, and sec, the French word for "dry".Some sources claim it comes from a triple distillation process used to create the liqueur, [1] [2] but others say that a triple distillation is not used.
His children joined him, notably his daughter Dominique Hériard-Dubreuil who became general manager in 1988, and president two years later. In 1991, the House of Rémy Martin incorporated Rémy Cointreau into the business. [9] In the 2010s Rémy Martin experienced a significant sales downturn after Chinese austerity measures targeted expensive ...
Cognac (/ ˈ k ɒ n. j æ k / KON-yak, also US: / ˈ k oʊ n-, ˈ k ɔː n-/ KOHN-, KAWN-, [2] [3] [4] French: ⓘ) is a variety of brandy named after the commune of Cognac, France.It is produced in the surrounding wine-growing region in the departments of Charente and Charente-Maritime.
Don Papa was founded by then Rémy Cointreau executive Stephen Carroll. [1] During a trip to Bacolod, Carroll heard stories of the area having the finest sugar cane in the world. [2] Until that time, rum from the country had been distilled in other areas of the Philippines. [2]